Google Name History
Initial name given to Google was BackRub. They called it because the program analyzed the web's "back links" to understand how important a website was and what other sites it related to.
Then they decided to have "googol" the shorter form of "googolplex". Googol is the digit 1 followed by 100 zeroes while googolplex is 1 followed by a googol zeroes.
While they were looking for the availability of "googol.com" availability, they accidentally searched "google.com" and they found it as much better one and went with that.
Initial name given to Google was BackRub. They called it because the program analyzed the web's "back links" to understand how important a website was and what other sites it related to.
Then they decided to have "googol" the shorter form of "googolplex". Googol is the digit 1 followed by 100 zeroes while googolplex is 1 followed by a googol zeroes.
While they were looking for the availability of "googol.com" availability, they accidentally searched "google.com" and they found it as much better one and went with that.